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Quote by John Heywood

“A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!”

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John Heywood (1497-1580) was an influential English writer, playwright, and poet during the Renaissance. His extensive works, including plays, poetry, and prose, have had a profound impact on British literature. more

“Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate . . . where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unnerved.”

Trying Looks Remember Mother Tree Garden Fruit Preserves Gates Butterfly Fence Baskets Clusters

Book:Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go.”

Left Fruit Clouds Branches Gray Comes And Goes Ripe

Author:Santoka Taneda

“Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky.”

Tree Sky Flower Fruit Heavy Yellow Steel Palms Peaches Withered Metallic Melons

Book:Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher

Source: Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher

“The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces untouched, I bring thee as offering.”